The plants are tall (2 ft.) - leaves are narrow and pointed. The single "showy" yellow flowers dangle off the leaf on a short thin wiry inflorescence (in the manner of Pl. adeleae - it surely must be in the same section as adeleae) The flowers are 2 1/4" long. Long dorsal sepal is 1 1/4" long. Platter-like fused synsepal. The overall color of the flower is a translucent gold. A very desirable species.

Very cute small species to 4” tall with wiry leaf stems. Single ¼” flowers at base of leaf are golden with a reddish suffusion offset by a wine-red lip. Interestingly, this plant has been identified by Selby as Pl. circumplexa (O.I.C. # 13938), but they did state that this plant is NOT typical. We are not using that name because this plant and flowers do not remotely resemble the photos of Pl. circumplexa on the Internet or in books such as ‘Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama’ (Dressler)

Variable species is more correctly named R. muscifera. Ours is a broad-leaf form with very colorful flowers, red lateral sepals, dorsal spotted with red-purple. Flowers are produced successively in a fascicle at the base of the back of the leaf. Rewarding easy species.

Minature-sized warm-growing epiphyte. The “Bug-like Scaphosepalum” refers to the shape of the “showy” ¾” flowers. Blooms in the winter on a slender 5" long, successively several-flowered inflorescence. Good species!

Miniature clumping epiphyte has wire-like spikes which hold the single flowers out away from the plant (successively many flowered). Tiny 3/8" flowers are yellowish with an elongated red lip. This has just been described as a new species by Carlyle Luer. Most Scaphosepalum species have proven easy to grow in our intermediate climate and quite rewarding.

(Schomburgkia tibicinis x Cattleya bicolor) Very nice showy hybrid! 3 - 6 large red waxy flowers with undulated petals and sepals. Flowers are held at tops of spikes as in Schomburgkia but much shorter therefore more manageable. We heard that one of our seedlings from a previous selfings just received an FCC/AOS in San Diego.

I actually do not remember what this looks like! The ‘Really Really Nice’ is the note I made on the seed capsule tag at the time. These are large warm-growing epiphytes with long spikes with heads of flowers at the ends. In general. lueddemanniii has narrow, very undulated petals and sepals which are dark red brown, the lip side lobes are red or lavender.

If you always wanted to grow Sobralias but were put off by their large size - then this is for you. This "mini-Sobralia" also happens to have the brightest hot pink colored flowers! Good-sized blossoms too. The mature parent plant is now about 18" tall and very clumpy. I think it had around 45 flowers at once displayed beautifully around the plant. Beautiful interesting foliage too. As you know, Sobralia flowers are short lived (one or two days) but plant blooms over and over from the same canes throughout a season (Fall/Winter). We are the first to propagate this rare and desirable species from seed.

Very similar to S. atropubescens - orangey sepals and petals with white margins. Pink in the lip with red in the throat. Very nice growth habit, smaller than other species. Nice bushy plants in 2.5” pot

Dwarf sophronitis is really fun and easier to grow than others (warm-tolerant). Beautiful little plants stay small but clumpy. 2 to 7 flowers (1 1/8"), are a sparkling cinnabar red with yellow at base of lip. Several flowering seasons.

This is a division of our CCE/AOS plant which received Best In Show and the Governor's Trophy at our big County Fair Show a few years back. It had 1400 flowers at that time!. The pink color is pale, the value of this cultivar is really in the floriferousness and ease of culture. T. sylvestris carries more flowers per spike than other similar species. These low-elevation species grow dry and bright in bushes, grass, and on dead trees and cactus. For this reason we grow them hanging in empty net pots. The CCE plant hadn’t been touched n 15 years and was basically growing in mid-air.